Franconia
Franconia is a region of northern Bavaria, a state of Germany. Within Franconia are the historically important city of Nuremberg, the UNESCO World Heritage town of Bamberg, and a huge range of outdoor activities in the Franconian Switzerland and Franconian lake district.
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nuremberg and Erlangen.
Nuremberg
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
Destinations to Discover
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Middle Franconia
Upper Franconia
Upper Franconia is an administrative region of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany.
Lower Franconia
Lower Franconia is a region in the state of Bavaria in Germany.
Franconia
- Region
- …is also known as “Franken”
- Description: region in the south of Germany
- Location
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Latitude of center
49.74° or 49° 44′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
10.77° or 10° 46′ 12″ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Franconia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Franke”
- Albanian: “Franken”
- Albanian: “Frankonia”
- Albanian: “Landesteile Franken”
- Arabic: “فرانكونيا”
- Arabic: “فرنكونيا”
- Aragonese: “Franconia”
- Armenian: “Ֆրանկոնիա”
- Basque: “Frankonia”
- Bavarian: “Frangn”
- Bavarian: “Frankn”
- Belarusian: “Франконія”
- Breton: “Franken”
- Bulgarian: “Франкония”
- Catalan: “Francònia”
- Chinese: “弗兰肯”
- Chinese: “法兰克尼亚”
- Chinese: “法蘭克尼亞”
- Chuvash: “Франкони”
- Croatian: “Frankonija”
- Czech: “Franky”
- Danish: “Franken”
- Dutch: “Franconie”
- Dutch: “Franconië”
- Dutch: “Franken”
- Esperanto: “Frankonio”
- Esperanto: “Frankonujo”
- Estonian: “Frangimaa”
- Finnish: “Franconia”
- Finnish: “Franken”
- French: “Franconie”
- Galician: “Franconia”
- Georgian: “ფრანკონია”
- German: “Franken”
- Greek: “Φραγκονία”
- Greek: “Φρανκονία”
- Hebrew: “פרנקוני”
- Hebrew: “פרנקוניה”
- Hungarian: “Frankföld”
- Indonesian: “Franconia”
- Irish: “An Fhrancóin”
- Italian: “Franconi”
- Italian: “Franconia”
- Japanese: “フランケン地域”
- Japanese: “フランケン地方”
- Korean: “프랑켄”
- Latin: “Franconia”
- Latvian: “Frankija”
- Lithuanian: “Frankonija”
- Lithuanian: “Frankonijos istorija”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Frankonija”
- Macedonian: “Франконија”
- Malay: “Franken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Franken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Franken”
- Norwegian: “Franken”
- Ossetian: “Франкони”
- Persian: “فرانکونی”
- Persian: “فرانکونیا”
- Polish: “Franken”
- Polish: “Frankonia”
- Portuguese: “Francónia”
- Portuguese: “Francônia”
- Romanian: “Franconia”
- Romanian: “Franken”
- Russian: “Франкония”
- Serbian: “Frankonija”
- Serbian: “Франконија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Frankonija”
- Slovenian: “Frankovska”
- Slovenian: “Frankovsko”
- Spanish: “Franconia”
- Swedish: “Franken”
- Swiss German: “Franke”
- Swiss German: “Franken”
- Thai: “Franconia”
- Thai: “ดยุคแห่งฟรังโคเนีย”
- Thai: “ฟรังโกเนีย”
- Thai: “ฟรังโคเนีย”
- Thai: “แฟรงโคเนีย”
- Thai: “อาณาจักรดยุคแห่งฟรังโคเนีย”
- Turkish: “Frankonya”
- Ukrainian: “Франконія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Franken”
- Upper Sorbian: “Frankowska”
- Upper Sorbian: “Frankska”
- Urdu: “فرانکونیا”
- Venetian: “Francònia”
- Vietnamese: “Franken”
- Volapük: “Frankän”
- Western Frisian: “Franken”
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